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# Best Snov.io alternatives in 2026 | SpecStream

Compared on Nov 9, 2026.

# Snov.io alternatives in 2026

**Accounts with their committee, from 5¢ a row.**

Snov.io costs $39 a month for 1,000 credits on Starter, and Pro S, Pro M, Pro L and Ultra run from $99 to $738. A prospect or a verification takes 1 credit, and credits expire every 30 days unless they roll over.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the accounts you want by any trait, and each one reaches your CRM with its buying committee at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, plus 5¢ an email and 15¢ a phone.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-snov-io&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DShopify%2520agencies%2520in%2520the%2520US%2520and%2520Canada%2520with%252010%2520to%2520100%2520employees%252C%2520with%2520the%2520founder%252C%2520the%2520head%2520of%2520sales%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520for%2520each)

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

## SpecStream and Snov.io side by side

|  | SpecStream | Snov.io |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What you get back | Structured rows, one record per company or person, with facts from many sites joined. Source URL and read time on every value | Prospects, email addresses and email verifications, paid in credits |
| The unit you pay for | A delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. The same rate on every plan | A credit: 1 for each prospect and each email verification. Recipients you email are counted apart, 5,000 on Starter |
| Plans | $10 of credit, no card. Pro $19, Scale $99 and Team $499 a month, all spent as credit at the same row rates. A yearly plan adds 20% more credit | Free trial. Starter $39 a month, Pro S $99, Pro M $189, Pro L $369 and Ultra $738, with 25% off yearly. Starter is $29.25 a month billed yearly |
| Seats | No seats. People and agents spend from one balance | Unlimited team seats. LinkedIn account slots cost $69 a month each |
| Unused balance | A top-up never expires, and whatever a run does not use goes back to your balance | Credits expire every 30 days, and roll over on an annual plan or with plan renewal on |
| After you stop paying | Rows you bought stay yours, and rows you already own are never charged again | Uploaded data can be deleted after 90 days without a renewed plan |
| API and delivery | MCP server, REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI and A2A. Rows go to Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooks | MCP access is listed on Starter |

## Why Snov.io buyers move to SpecStream

### Accounts by a trait no filter lists

Your best accounts share a trait no filter lists. Describe it, and every account that has it reaches your CRM with its buying committee and a link to where the trait shows.

The trait can be the tools a company runs, the roles it hires for or the markets it entered. SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit before anything runs, then checks each account against each condition on the live web. An account that fails one is not delivered and not billed.

### The committee and its contacts come on the row

1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150 on SpecStream, plus 5¢ for each email and 15¢ for each phone. A Snov.io credit buys a prospect or a verification, and Starter holds 1,000 a month that expire every 30 days on a monthly plan without renewal.

Each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled. Source URL and read time on every value.

### The price is set before the run

Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, the charge never goes past that amount, and whatever the run does not use goes back to your balance. Snov.io credits expire every 30 days unless the plan is annual or set to renew.

### Signals that say who to call this week

SpecStream reads public databases every morning. In the week of November 2, 2026, 494 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $29.51 billion sold, and each one is a row on [specstream.ai/data/form-d](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io). Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at [specstream.ai/signals](https://specstream.ai/signals?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io). Ask for your own cut of any of them.

The same account runs the Search API, the most accurate web search API in the world: 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The scores and method are on [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io).

### The accounts stay up to date in your CRM

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, a changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New matches and changes land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.

## Other Snov.io alternatives

### SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the accounts that meet every condition, with the buying committee, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

### Hunter.io

An email finder priced in euros: Starter is 49€ a month for 2,000 credits, an email found takes 1 credit and a verification 0.5. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. A SpecStream top-up never expires.

### Lusha

A contact database sold in credits. The Free plan gives 40 credits a month, an email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5. On SpecStream an email adds 5¢ to a row and a phone adds 15¢, on every plan.

### Apollo

A sales platform billed in credits. One click exports up to 10,000 leads, and credits reset at the start of each billing cycle with no rollover. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and a row costs the same on every plan.

## How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

ResultsWideSearchCostSimpleQA Verified

|  | SpecStream | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/parallel.svg)Parallel | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/exa.svg)Exa | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/tavily.svg)Tavily | ![](https://specstream.ai/images/benchmarks/perplexity.svg)Perplexity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Web research**WideSearch, GPT-5.6 Luna | 60.9 | 45.5 | 53.0 | 47.9 | 47.0 |
| **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Luna | 96 | 94 | 91 | 94 | 94 |
| **Factual accuracy**SimpleQA Verified, GPT-5.6 Sol | 99 | 97 | 91 | 92 | 95 |

## How to switch from Snov.io

Write the accounts you want in plain words, or import the contacts you exported from Snov.io, up to 20,000 rows, and SpecStream fills in or checks each row. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is up to 200 rows.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the `402` reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

```
curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Shopify agencies in the US and Canada with 10 to 100 employees, with the founder, the head of sales and a work email for each", "count": 25}'
```

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC on Base, Arbitrum or Polygon, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp` and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance.

[Describe your data](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-snov-io&utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fask%3Fq%3DShopify%2520agencies%2520in%2520the%2520US%2520and%2520Canada%2520with%252010%2520to%2520100%2520employees%252C%2520with%2520the%2520founder%252C%2520the%2520head%2520of%2520sales%2520and%2520a%2520work%2520email%2520for%2520each)

## Frequently asked questions

Something we didn't answer? [Talk to a human](https://specstream.ai/talk-to-a-human.md)

How much does Snov.io cost?

Snov.io costs $39 a month on Starter, $99 on Pro S, $189 on Pro M, $369 on Pro L and $738 on Ultra, with 25% off billed yearly, and Starter is $29.25 a month billed yearly. Starter includes 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients. SpecStream charges 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone.

Do Snov.io credits roll over?

Only on an annual plan or with plan renewal on: its pricing page says unused credits expire every 30 days otherwise. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and what a run does not use goes back to your balance.

What is the best Snov.io alternative?

SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the accounts in plain words, approve the most the run can cost, and get each account that meets every condition with its buying committee, an email for 5¢ more and a phone for 15¢ more. The rows land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio or your sheet, and stay up to date on your schedule.

What happens to my Snov.io data if I stop paying?

Snov.io's terms say it can delete uploaded data after 90 days without a renewed subscription. On SpecStream the rows you bought stay yours, and rows you already own are never charged again.

Can SpecStream fill in a list I already have?

Yes, up to 20,000 rows from a CSV, Excel file, Google Sheet or Airtable base. Importing is free. Each row that matches your request pays its row rate, and a row that does not match costs a 5¢ check.

Does SpecStream have an API?

Yes. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search returns rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 each. All three run through the REST API, the Python and TypeScript SDKs, the CLI and the MCP server at `https://api.specstream.ai/mcp`. The docs start at [specstream.ai/docs/api](https://specstream.ai/docs/api?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io).

How accurate is SpecStream?

SpecStream's Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. It is the most accurate web search API in the world, and the scores and method are on [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=snov-io). In a row, each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled.

### Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

1.  [SpecStream pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing)specstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
2.  [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md)specstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 9, 2026
3.  [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks)specstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 9, 2026
4.  [SpecStream data, Form D](https://specstream.ai/data/form-d)specstream.ai/data/form-d, read Nov 9, 2026
5.  [SpecStream signals](https://specstream.ai/signals)specstream.ai/signals, read Nov 9, 2026
6.  [Snov.io pricing](https://snov.io/pricing)snov.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
7.  [Snov.io terms and conditions](https://snov.io/terms-and-conditions)snov.io/terms-and-conditions, read Nov 9, 2026
8.  [Hunter pricing](https://hunter.io/pricing)hunter.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026
9.  [Lusha pricing](https://www.lusha.com/pricing/)lusha.com/pricing/, read Nov 9, 2026
10.  [Apollo pricing](https://www.apollo.io/pricing)apollo.io/pricing, read Nov 9, 2026